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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
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Frankfurt/Main
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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I hate all explanations they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
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I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
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